- Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa - author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian.[204]
- Naubakht - Pahlavi translator of the Abassid court.[205]
- Fadl ibn Sahl - Persian vizier of the Abassid era.[206]
- Rattanbai Petit - second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
- Saman Khuda - founder of the Samanid dynasty, one of the first native Persian dynasties in the Middle East and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanids.[207]
From Zoroastrianism
